While she wasn’t “shocked” that Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton, she was a little surprised by the “intensity with which Donald Trump carried some of these areas or came really close to carrying areas that had been elusive to Republicans for a very long time,” she told Willie Geist in a Sunday TODAY interview that took place before the inauguration.

“What concerns me about those poll numbers is very simple. It's part of how we got there with him,” she answered. “The question for everyone who covers him and who thinks about him is, What is the line between thoughtful criticism and skepticism and, you know, flat-out denial and delegitimization of what just happened?”

When it was mentioned that Trump has frequently insulted intelligence agencies, Conway disagreed.

“[President] Trump has received many intelligence briefings. The PDB, the presidential daily briefing, which is more of a product than an actual event. But he also has received other intelligence briefings. And he has kept his mouth shut about them. Why all these leaks from other people?”